92. mVideo Player
Price: Free
There‘s nothing worse than procuring a
video from the internet, only to find out your lovely Android device won’t play
it. Lucky there’s an app out there that will mean you will never have to wipe
away the tears of frustration again, because mVideo Player plays pretty much
everything you throw at it.
mVideo
Player
This handy app is a delight when it comes
to everything video. It plays MP4, M4V and 3GP files and can also add a
subtitle track if you so need it.
The app also takes data from IMDb, so that
when you load up a film, it comes with a bunch of information you can read
before putting your movie on.
mVideo also does intelligent things such as
remembering the moment you stopped watching a clip, and you can gesture seek
backwards and forwards.
You’ve got to love it when apps work the
way they should - mVideo will revolutionize the way you watch video on your
handset.
93. Full Screen Caller ID
Price: $4.99
Full
Screen Caller ID
Making sure you know instantly who is
trying to ring you, Full Screen Caller ID provides, well, just that -
full-screen notifications for all your incoming and outgoing calls or text
messages.
If you’ve already synced your Facebook
friends with your contacts, you’ll soon find out that profile images that have
been grabbed from the social networking site appear significantly poor in
quality, now they have been stretched to the entire screen. That means you need
to grab higher quality images from your camera, SD card or Facebook to suit the
larger surroundings. Once you’ve selected all your images, you can also set the
theme for the call screen.
If seeing the name flash across the screen
is not enough to alert you about who is calling, this is by far the easiest and
most straightforward way to add large images to your call screen. The price may
seem steep, but while there is a free version, you need the full version to
benefit from features such as Facebook syncing, themes and the all important
ad-removal.
94. The Economist
Price: Free
The
Economist
To many, The Economist is the place
to go to find out just what is going on in the world. From politics to
business, the publication has been guiding thoughts for more than 150 years,
and it looks set to continue this impressive feat in the world of tablets and
mobiles with the launch of the Economist app for Android.
In short, The Economist is an app that
truly makes your phone smart. It offers free insight from The Economist’s
wealth of writers, giving you enough of a tease to make you seriously consider
purchasing a subscription to the digital edition of The Economist In
fact, the whole app is geared up for you to do this. The preview gives you a
good few articles and a decent feel for the app. It takes a few moments to
download content but once this is done, you can swipe through the articles to
read them. There’s nothing fancy with the way the app is laid out. It feels a
lot like a mobile formatted website, but the amount of content is impressive.
Given that a quarterly subscription to The
Economist is a snip under $30, you may think twice before signing up. This
does give you ultimate access to the digital content, however.
95. Evernote
Price: Free
Evernote
As decent as Android is, for some reason
Google doesn’t give the phones note-taking functionality. Luckily there is a
number of apps that fill this void, with Evernote being one of the best.
The ethos of Evernote is simple: take notes
in any form and the app archives them for you for later use. Whether it’s a
photo or a file, text or an audio note, you can store them for later and give
the memory part of your brain some much-needed time off.
Evernote for Android enables you to search
for your notes and sync with the desktop version. It is also easy to tag and
organize the notes, alongside a whole host of other cool functions.
Once archived, the notes appear as a
thumbnail with text information - this makes it really easy to find that quick
‘note to self that you made a few weeks back.
Although it is still in beta form, there is
a lot of scope for Evernote. And the best thing about it is that it’s free.
The worst thing about it is that you now
have no excuse for forgetting that really expensive item your partner wants for
their birthday.
96. Google Goggles
Price: Free
Google
Goggles gives you the gen on anything you point your camera at.
Those who have Android 1.6 or over can take
full advantage of Google Goggles.
While it is still in Labs (beta form), the
app enables you to capture images with your phone and Google the results.
Why would you want to do that? Well, if you
see an awesome picture in an art gallery and want to find out more, you can
take an image and use Goggles to search Google for details. And if you are in a
foreign country and want to know what a certain landmark is, simply take a
photo of it and run it through Goggles.
The results are surprisingly slick - it
doesn’t seem to recognize things like furniture but logos and the like work, as
does taking images of CDs and books.
It’s not a game-changer but it is one of
the more fun apps on Google Play.
